The cold focal plane chopper of HERSCHEL's PACS instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Krause, Oliver ^a   Lemke, Dietrich ^a   Hofferbert, Ralph ^a   Böhm, Armin ^a   Klaas, Ulrich ^a   Katzer, Josef ^b   Höller, Frank ^b   Salvasohn, Manfred ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chopper; Cryomechanics; HERSCHEL; PACS

Indexed keywords

COLD FOCAL PLANE CHOPPERS; CRYOMECHANICS; HERSCHEL; PACS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 33749633486     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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